It’s been known for some time that UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey doesn’t care for Miesha Tate, her bitter rival and opposing coach on last season’s “The Ultimate Fighter.”

It turns out Rousey doesn’t care for “The Ultimate Fighter” much either.

At a press gathering Thursday in downtown Los Angeles to promote her title defense at UFC 168, Rousey took turns ripping her challenger as well as the reality show that turned the heat up on their already searing rivalry.

“I was aware that I was walking into a reality TV show environment and they’re used to being manipulative and treating people a certain way,” said Rousey (7-0), who will defend her belt against Tate (13-4) in the co-main event at UFC 168 on Dec. 28 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. “But I was surprised at how bad it was. And the real distinct favoritism shown to the other team and not ours.”

The end result was what was perceived as a fall from grace for the popular champion who has not only given the UFC a big name and pretty face to market, but helped catapult women’s MMA into a viable and respected sport.

Rousey says the criticism for the way she was portrayed — people on Twitter called her out for being pouty, emotional and foul-mouthed — is unfair, especially when her goal was not to promote herself, but to boost the women’s division and coach women and men hoping to achieve a dream of competing in the UFC.

“They edited as they pleased and, you know, they needed a villain and they made me fill that role and that’s fine. I wasn’t purposely going out of my way to make me seem flawless and nice. I was purposely going out of my way to do everything possible to be the best possible coach that these kids could have,” Rousey said.

Rousey accused Tate and her coaches of all sorts of mischief, from on-camera pranks to behind-the-scenes chicanery, in order to frustrate Rousey and make her coaching staff and team look bad. And she felt the show didn’t help dissuade that perspective.

Here are some of the scenes — on camera and off — that caused Rousey to blast Tate and “The Ultimate Fighter” while covering a profanity-laced series of subjects. (“They did every backhanded ... thing to [mess] with us and it was all shown in a way that favored them. That’s why, ... that show.”)

SHAYNA BASZLER LOSES

Rousey took exception when, after she selected her No. 1 pick Baszler to fight Tate’s No. 1 pick Julianna Pena in the first fight of the show, Tate celebrated Pena’s tap-out upset victory.

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“One of the things was the way she reacted after Shayna lost. Really, really bugged the [crap] out of me. She’d walk around ‘Oh, me and Shayna are friends.’ Even the girls on my team cried when Roxie (Modafferi of Team Tate) lost to Jessica (Rakoczy of Team Rousey). Shayna losing like that and Miesha celebrating like that, I thought, was a huge insult to Shayna.”

NEVER REVEALED CHRIS BEAL DRAMA

Not only was Rousey upset when Team Tate chose an injured Beal to fight, which was aired on the reality show, but she dropped a bombshell that ended up on the cutting-room floor — accusing Team Tate of calling a promoter for whom Beal had been fighting and causing trouble.

“The ‘Ultimate Fighter’ producers told me to stop mentioning this because they weren’t going to play it, and I said I was going to find a way to get this out and I don’t ... forget [anything]. Right as Chris Beal is warming up, he just finished warming up, Dana White walks into the locker room and says, ‘You’re signed under this and this promotion?’ And he was like, ‘What? No, my contract ran out.’ ‘Well, they’re calling right now and they’re saying if you fight they’re gonna sue us’ So Chris had an old contract which he thought he had spent enough time out of fights and there was a loophole in his contract and he got out, but the other promoters called. This is a close-circuit television show. There’s no way that that promoter should have known that Chris was fighting at that moment. Who would stand to benefit? Really? So they took my No. 1 pick kid, when he had a broken hand, not only did he have a broken hand and they put him up to fight, but then they went and called his old promoter and told them exactly when he was fighting and told them exactly the perfect time to call and [mess] with that kid the most? This is a kid who, like, beat cancer and has a little boy to raise. Why can’t you just let them go out there and have like the two best kids win? It was already [bad] they picked him just because of his injury. We would never do that. But the fact they would go out of their way to [mess] with him like that? That’s just beyond forgivable to me. It really, really is. They think I’m a bad sports person? Every single time after a fight, I shook the hand of the kid who won. The fights we lost, I shook the hand of the kid who won, I shook the hand of every other coach on their team and I flicked those little ... off in the face, because if you’re gonna ... do that [stuff] behind my back, I’m not gonna smile in your face and shake your hand. I’m not that type of person. But on the show, they just show me flicking them off. They don’t show me giving hugs and congratulations to everybody else.”

EDMOND TARVERDYAN PRANK BLOWS UP

Tempers flared when Team Tate sneaked into Team Rousey’s locker room and left some eyebrow wax with the name of Rousey’s striking coach, Edmond Tarverdyan, on it. Rousey took it as an insult to Tarverdyan’s Armenian heritage.

“When they left that eyebrow treatment thing for Edmond in there? I turned to Chris Beal (who is African-American) and I was like, ‘If they left a poster of Ashy Larry in here with a bottle of lotion, how would you ... take that?’ I mean, really? How would you? It’s [messed] up. It’s some [messed-up] racist [stuff]. I’m sorry. I’m not sorry. But ... them. And this was after Dana came in and was giving us all this [crap] and saying like, he was like, ‘Look, they’re saying they’re scared for their safety.’ and all this stuff. After Dana said Miesha & Bryan were scared for their safety because of us, they still went and poked and prodded and did that ... with Beal and then they did that ... with the eyebrow thing.”

COACHING STAFF UNPAID

Rousey was incensed when, after her coaching staff hadn’t been paid for three weeks, they asked to fill out forms for background checks.

“And then in the middle of the show, we had already been there for three weeks and they hadn’t paid my coaches. They’d been there for three weeks. Some of these guys had jobs they took time off of. Then suddenly they come up to us and they’re like, ‘We need you all to fill out background checks.’ In the middle of the show. ‘Oh, this is normal procedure, da-da-da.’ It’s like, is it normal procedure for you to not pay the people on your show? And then in the middle of the show suddenly do a background check? We’ve been here for three weeks. What the ... is going on? Said, ‘... your background checks. We’re not doing it.’

DENNIS HALLMAN CONFRONTATION

One of most intense scenes from the show was when Tarverdyan and Team Tate guest coach Dennis Hallman, a former UFC fighter, went toe-to-toe — which Rousey said was a ploy to get her head coach in trouble.

“They purposely brought that Hallman guy in to instigate Edmond by the way because Hallman is expendable. He was just a guest coach. They brought him in to [mess] with Edmond and get him kicked off the show so we wouldn’t have a head coach and we’d be [screwed]. So they didn’t show the parts where Hallman was instigating Edmond in the parking lot. They didn’t show anything like that. They only showed the big ... overreaction when I pushed Edmond out of the way. I was like, ‘You’re not getting in trouble. You’re not getting kicked off the show.’ I went and told Hallman, ‘You really want to do this? You really want to fight? Give us your number. Meet you somewhere in the desert. No cameras around. You guys can duke it out.’ He did not give me his number.

ANOTHER PRANK TOWARD TARVERDYAN BLOWS UP

Team Tate decided to play another prank by making posters showing a masculine-looking female character with a unibrow from the 2004 comedy “Dodgeball” and putting the name “Edmond Rousey” on it. The posters were plastered all over the gym. After they leave, UFC President Dana White showed up and was not happy and removed them all himself — except he missed a couple. Needless to say, Team Rousey was not amused.

“They ... make those ... Edmond Rousey posters with a picture of that chick from ‘Dodgeball’ and put them all over the gym. These are the people were like, ‘Oh we’re so scared for our safety’ and they’re, ‘I think they’re gonna hurt us.’ They’re like these little ... kids in the classroom, they’re like placating acting nice to the teacher and then instigating all the other kids when the teacher’s back was turned pretty much. So they’re being [babies] when the cameras are off and they’re like, ‘Oh my God, we’re such victims’ when the cameras are on. So they went and did this [stuff] and tried to instigate us again. They gave the same promise they wouldn’t do anything. Mind you, they gave the same promise that we did. But they didn’t hold up their word. Again. So we get there and they try to block us out of the gym. They try to hide all the posters and everything. We get there and we don’t know what’s going on. And there was one that was forgot in the sauna and there was one that they put where the tape would be so they knew Edmond would go in there. So we found them anyway. And Edmond was going to leave. He was like our head coach. He was our only striking person there. ... I spent hours every night trying to convince this guy not to go. But he was like ‘I can’t be disingenuine like this. I can’t, like, not do anything because cameras are around. I was like, ‘Look, I gave my world to Dana. We gave our word to these kids. This is what we have to do.’ I would spend hours every night to convince all the guys on my team not to leave despite how much they were getting disrespected. So this is what I would do for hours after I left the gym every night.’

TATE HATE RESURFACES

“You would be shocked at the absolutely appalling number of people who have come to me begging to help me with my camp because they were [screwed] over by Tate and Caraway in some way. They’ve been hopping around camps, like from one camp to another to another to another. They never stick with the same one. I’ve had so many people come up to me being like, ‘Please let me help you. They did this, this and that. Please let me help you do this.’ Every single bridge they burned in their wake, like, had come to me begging to help me to try and beat her. I didn’t accept anybody’s help. I was like, this is very useful information to know. That ... everywhere they leave that people are so pissed off they actually want to help me beat her. But we can do this on our own. And I can guarantee you, there’s not a single ... person from my camp that would ever, ever go and do something like that. So it really makes me wonder what kind of people they are.”

As for fighting Tate, Rousey feels she’s a much better fighter than when she defeated Tate for her Strikeforce title in March 2012 with a vicious, elbow-torquing first-round armbar. Since then, Tate has gone 1-2 and got the coaching gig on “TUF” and title shot after Cat Zingano — who became the No. 1 contender following a third-round TKO of Tate in April — suffered a torn ACL in May.

So for Rousey, Tate didn’t exactly earn this opportunity based on merit.

“I would say that the factors considered in giving her a title shot were definitely outside her recent athletic performances, which is why it’s so important to play up the rivalry part and play up the whole looks part,” Rousey said. “Because athletically, I don’t think ... if you look at the Vegas odds, it’s 10-to-1. It’s hard to sell that. It’s hard to sell a 10-to-1 fight. So you have to look outside the box on how to get people interested in her.”